[Palladin]

Ed has no criminal record. He's in his 30's or 40's. Someone who has gotten that far w/o getting in trouble is not likely to start that late.

Oh, puhleeze! David Westerfield is 50 years old and had no criminal record...until the night he decided to kidnap Danielle Van Dam.

[sandude]

Oh, puhleeze!

Oh, puhleeze yourself! LE has been investigating this thing for over 3 months. If Ed had something to hide don't you think they would have been onto him by now? How about the press? Do you think they have just been sitting on their hands all these weeks? There's no smoke here Pallidin. You need to give it a rest.

[cookiedough]

It is a logical fallacy to disprove a generality with a specific instance.

What Devil Anse said is true, in general. Not true in the specific case of Westerfield.